A frequent type of query in spatial networks (e.g., road networks) is to find the K nearest neighbors (KNN) of a given query object. With these networks, the distances between ob...
Abstract. Many geographical applications need to model spatial phenomena with vague or indeterminate boundaries and interiors. A popular paradigm adopted by the GIS community for t...
: Due to the high complexity of objects and queries and also due to extremely large data volumes, geographic database systems impose stringent requirements on their storage and acc...
Thomas Brinkhoff, Holger Horn, Hans-Peter Kriegel,...
Many applications require the management of spatial data. Clustering large spatial databases is an important problem which tries to find the densely populated regions in the featu...
With the phenomenal growth of the WWW, rich data sources on many different subjects have become available online. Some of these sources store daily facts that often involve textual...
Karla A. V. Borges, Alberto H. F. Laender, Claudia...